Consol Shows Off State-Of-The-Art Water Treatment Plant
Consolidation Coal Company has recently unveiled a $200 million treatment plant and pipeline system to handle acid water from numerous underground mines in the Morgantown area. Joselyn King of the...
View ArticleCoal - It's Not Just For Burning Anymore
Forbes magazine reminds us that coal isn't useful just for burning; it can also be the building block of structural and electrical components with interesting characteristics. The West Virginia Coal...
View ArticleAustralia Moving From Carbon Tax To CarbonTrading
Last year Australia adopted a carbon tax, one that hasn't been too well received. It was a pretty hefty tax of about $24 Aus, much higher than about any other country. Green feeling evidently overcame...
View ArticleDam Owner Education Program August 8 in Eastern Panhandle
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Dam Safety Program is sponsoring a one-day workshop for dam owners and monitors on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Mountain Lake Club near...
View ArticleKing Coal Highway Renamed For Mike Whitt
In a nice tribute to a man who exemplified unselfish public service, the King Coal Highway in Mingo County was named after Mike Whitt, who died a year or so ago. The Williamson Daily News has the...
View ArticleFish & Wildlife List Diamond Darter As Endangered Species
The US Fish & Wildlife Service has decided to list the Diamond Darter, a fish that is only found in the Elk River, as endangered. A news release from FWS is found here. The following is an...
View ArticleEPA Proposing Changes to CLean Water Act Reporting
EPA is proposing a modernization of Clean Water Act reporting. (See press release below.) The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Water and Waste Management already...
View ArticleEPA Updates Oil and Gas Standards for Storage Tnaks
EPA has announced revisions to the 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO (sometimes referred to as "Quad O") New Source Performance Standards that apply to oil and gas production storage tanks. In West...
View ArticleThe Energy Cost of Raising the World's Standard of Living
Poverty means energy poverty for most of the world. Lights, heating and cooling, refrigeration, transportation, pumps, and labor-saving devices of all kinds require power. So how much additional...
View ArticleOffice of Oil and Gas Says No Further Air Pollution Regulation Needed
A provision in the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act directed the DEP Office of Oil and Gas to study the need for further regulation of air pollutants from oil and gas drilling sites. The OOG...
View ArticleToday's Number - 60 GWs
Sixty gigawatts (GW) is the total amount of installed wind power capacity in America as of the end of 2012. It is also the amount of coal-fired generating capacity that will be retired over the next...
View ArticleGreat Kanawha River Cleanup September 14, 2013
The 24th annual Great Kanawha River Cleanup, sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 14. Cleanup sites include Kanawha...
View ArticleDistrict Court Interprets NPDES Permit Shield
Judge Chambers of the USDC for the Southern Dist of WV recently ruled, in a case pertaining to discharges from a surface coal mine, that the mine (owned by Marfork Coal Co.) was in violation of its...
View ArticleWest Virginia DEP Schedules Training For Electronic DMR Submissions
The state Division of Water and Waste Management has free training scheduled for the following dates for the regulated community and consultants who are required to submit certain water resources...
View ArticleThe High Cost Of Renewable Credits
Command and control economies just don't work. Congress requires refiners to blend gasoline with ethanol, but right now gasoline consumption is dropping and there are relatively few cars that can...
View ArticleORSANCO Delays Mixing Zone Prohibition
ORSANCO (the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission) has elected to delay its prohibition on mixing zones for bioaccumulative substances until October 16, 2015. The prohibition had been...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court to Hear Greenhouse Gas Rule Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of Texas v. EPA, in which the D.C. Circuit Court approved EPA’s greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations. Numerous industrial organizations and states had...
View ArticleMarcellus Natural Gas Production Continues to Exceed Expectations
Marcellus natural gas production continues to surprise even the experts, reaching 12 billion cubic feet per day according to this report in the Daily Mail. Oil and gas industry employment is up, as...
View ArticleNo Bids on Solar Auction
You'd hate to throw a party, and no one comes. That appears to be the situation with the first auction of rights to develop a solar energy facility on federal land. No bidders showed up for the solar...
View ArticleClimate Change and the Food Supply
This from economist Don Boudreaux, responding to an article in the New York Times that climate change is going to pose a danger to the world's food supply:You report that "Climate change will pose...
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